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Tintometer (iou) and perfect(2) (iou)


Tintometer (iou)



Tintometer noun. L19.
[from TINT noun + -OMETER.]
(Proprietary name for) a form of colorimeter for the exact determination of colour.

perfect(2) (iou)



perfect verb trans. LME.
[from the adjective.]
Bring to full development. LME-E17.
Make perfect or faultless; loosely bring nearer to perfection, improve. LME.
G. Vidal Stokharin has perfected a painless death by poison. A. Eden He had..the opportunity and resources to perfect his prowess. S. Biko The power-based society of the Westerner..ever concerned with perfecting their technological know-how.
b. Make (a person) accomplished at or perfect in or in some activity. E17.
H. James Perfecting herself in French, which she already knows very well.
Complete (successfully); finish. L15.
L. Steffens They have perfected a plan to keep the citizens informed. S. Quinn He had perfected a little Magic show.
b. Printing. Complete the printing of a sheet of a book etc. by printing the second side. E19.
perfecting machine, (US) perfecting press a printing machine, on which the sheet, as it passes through, is printed first on one side and then on the Other.
perfec'tation noun (rare) the action or process of making or becoming perfect M19.
perfectedly adverb (rare) perfectly, completely L17.
perfecter noun a person who or thing which perfects something LME.
perfectionize verb trans. (rare) perfect E19.
perfector noun (a) a perfecter; (b) Printing a perfecting machine: L16.